Netherlands - Man wears mother's skin to Vlaardingen festival, Feb 2005
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Jeana (DP)
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ariel7 said:I guess so!! What happened to him? Please tell me he is dead and gone. Gross! Evil!
I think he's dead. He was born in 1906.
I got this info from an excelent story in the court tv library.
Eddie Gein spent 10 years in a mental institution before they decided he was competent to stand trial in 1968.
He was judged guilty, then soon after judged not guilty by reason of insanity and taken back to the State Hospital.
Eddie would remain at the mental institution for the rest of his life where he spent his days happily and comfortably. Schechter describes him as the model patient:
On July 26, 1984, he died after a long bout with cancer. He was buried in Plainfield cemetery next to his mother, not far from the graves that he had robbed years earlier.
Eddie Gein spent 10 years in a mental institution before they decided he was competent to stand trial in 1968.
He was judged guilty, then soon after judged not guilty by reason of insanity and taken back to the State Hospital.
Eddie would remain at the mental institution for the rest of his life where he spent his days happily and comfortably. Schechter describes him as the model patient:
On July 26, 1984, he died after a long bout with cancer. He was buried in Plainfield cemetery next to his mother, not far from the graves that he had robbed years earlier.
The story goes on to say;
that he was a model patient, who enjoyed the the handicraft work he was assigned -- stone polishing, rug making, and other forms of occupational therapy. He had even developed an interest in ham radios and had been permitted to use the money he had earned to order an inexpensive receiver.
All in all, he was a perfectly amiable, even docile patient, one of the few in the hospital who never required tranquilizing medications to keep his craziness under control. Indeed, apart from certain peculiarities -- the disconcerting way he would stare fixedly at nurses or any other female staff members who wandered into his line of vision -- it was hard to tell that he was particularly crazy at all
How strange is that?
that he was a model patient, who enjoyed the the handicraft work he was assigned -- stone polishing, rug making, and other forms of occupational therapy. He had even developed an interest in ham radios and had been permitted to use the money he had earned to order an inexpensive receiver.
All in all, he was a perfectly amiable, even docile patient, one of the few in the hospital who never required tranquilizing medications to keep his craziness under control. Indeed, apart from certain peculiarities -- the disconcerting way he would stare fixedly at nurses or any other female staff members who wandered into his line of vision -- it was hard to tell that he was particularly crazy at all
How strange is that?
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